"Mathew Vachaparampil, CEO of Caresoft, an engineering and automotive benchmarking firm, said his company’s engineers spent 200,000 hours building a digital replica of Tesla’s unboxed platform"
200K hours? This can't be right. If the engineers are paid $50/hour, that is a cost of $10 million just to create a digital replica of the process?
I don't think that's so farfetched - It was rumoured that Tesla bought a Nissan Leaf to take apart and see why it was cheap, and there are companies that buy products including cars, to tear apart and write reports on materials, components, production techniques, and costs for other companies (couldn't find the example I remember)
Again, that’s a physical breakdown of a product for other companies that pay tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for the full report. This company claimed to do a digital recreation. I don’t even know what that means.
>It was rumoured that Tesla bought a Nissan Leaf to take apart and see why it was cheap
It would be a bigger rumor if they didn't. Taking apart competitors cars is what every large manufacturer does.